Terms & Conditions
By registering for the Trailer Making Competition, the participants agree to abide by all the Terms and Conditions:
  • The Organisers reserve the right to cancel, postpone, or change the date and time of the Trailer Making competition.
  • The Organisers reserve the right to amend the Terms and Conditions without prior notification and you agree to be bound by such Terms and Conditions.
  • Winner Selection/Judging CriteriaThe fellows will be selected by the mentors from the partner organisations and the panel of Expert Committee. By submitting any project, entrants release the organisers, its sponsors, their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, representatives, agents, and advisors from any and all liability for any claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the decisions of the expert committee.
  • The Organisers reserve the right to suspend, amend, or modify any of these rules, terms and conditions, judging criteria with or without prior notice to participants. Other modifications will be announced via the Trailer Making Competition website and emails. The organisers will have the final decision when it comes to all matters of dispute arising from the Trailer Making Competition or the Prizes.
  • Participants must comply with these Terms and Conditions at all times during the Trailer Making Competition: Participants should comply with all legal requirements and refrain from creating content that is unlawful or otherwise objectionable, or any content that may be construed as such.
  • Participants must not use any content protected under third party rights or subject to confidentiality obligations to third parties and must permit the organisers to use the content for the intended purposes.
  • Participants agree that all organisers' decisions will be final and binding on all matters related to the Trailer Making Competition.
  • Participants agree to adhere to the organisers' decisions which will be final and binding on all matters related to the Trailer Making Competition.
  • Participants may be asked for some additional information (NoC, Experience Certificate) during the Trailer Making Competition period.
  • We fully endorse appropriate behaviour by participants at all times, including during any and all official and unofficial activities. We expect all attendees, sponsors, partners, volunteers, and staff to help us make the Trailer Making Competition a place that welcomes and respects all participants, regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, national origin, ethnicity, or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of any participant in person, online, or in any other form. Examples of harassment include passing offensive comments, verbal/ non-verbal threats or demands, sharing sexualised images, intimidation, stalking, harassing, non consensual photography or recording, sustained disruption of sessions or Hackathons, and unwelcome physical contact or sexual attention.
  • We expect all participants - attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers - to follow the Code of Conduct during the Trailer Making Competition. This includes during conference-related social meetups at off-site locations, and in related online communities and social media. Participants found indulging in unethical practices or harassment shall be banned permanently from all further activities.
  • Intellectual Property RightsFor better clarity, participant will grant the organisers a right of first refusal for the acquisition or any exclusive licence for all materials including software, source code, documentation, data, and concepts (whether created or developed independently by a participant or jointly with others) submitted to the organisers during the Trailer Making Competition, for a period of up to 6 months until the conclusion of the Trailer Making Competition.
  • During this period, the participant can not sell, transfer, or licence exclusively their intellectual property rights to a third party, without first offering the organisers the opportunity to acquire or licence the materials on the same terms and conditions offered by the third party, whereby the organisers will have 30 days to accept the participant’s offer. If the organiser does not accept the participant’s offer within 30 days, the participant will have the right to accept the third party’s offer.
  • The participants explicitly authorise the organisers, to publish, to communicate, to expose and to disclose, divulgate and represent the submitted ideas verbally, graphically or in writing, in any medium worldwide and without restrictions of time, and by any means, either in present or in future, free of charge, in relation to this Trailer Making Competition.
  • The results shall, infringe in any manner or induce infringement of any third party intellectual property rights. Should the right from the identified third party right owner not be commercially available, the result may not be qualified to win the prize.
  • The participant undertakes to indemnify the organisers against all claims asserted by third-parties against the organisers due to an actual or alleged infringement of rights resulting from the use of the result, as well as against all litigation costs (including reasonable attorney fees) required to defend the organisers against such claims, unless the organisers itself is responsible for the infringement of rights by its gross negligence or willful misconduct.
  • Protection of Intellectual PropertyBy submitting an entry or accepting any prize, Participants represent and warrant the following: Participants will not submit content that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret, or otherwise subject to third-party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless the participant is the owner of such rights or has permission from the rightful owner to post the content and to grant the Trailer Making Competition all of the rights granted herein;
  • The participant will not publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage the organisers, its sponsors, or any third party;
  • The participant will not submit content that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libellous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethically offensive, encourages criminal activity, gives rise to civil liability, or is otherwise inappropriate or destructive to the organisers’ or sponsors’ brand image or goodwill;
  • The participant will not post advertisements or solicitations of business;
  • The organisers will not be obligated to pay any compensation to, or permit any participation by, any third party in connection with the use, reproduction, modification, publication, display, or other exploitation of any of the content that the participant submits;
  • Participants must ensure the content submitted does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other disabling devices or harmful code.
  • By posting or submitting an entry to the Trailer Making Competition (regardless of the form or medium of such content), the participant hereby grants the Organisers and its sponsors, their respective affiliates, their affiliates’ agents, and third-party contractors a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and licence, with the right to sublicense, discuss, publicise, market, and otherwise display content derived from or relating to the Trailer Making Competition entry, and to distribute and use such marketing content for promotional and marketing purposes either in the form submitted or in the form of a derivative or adapted work. The participant understands that he or she will not receive any compensation or credit for use of your Trailer making competition entry, other than what is described in these official Trailer Making Competition Rules.
  • Copyright Participant represents and warrants that he or she is the sole author and copyright owner of the submission, and that the submission is an original work of the participant, or if the submission is a work based on an existing application, that the participant has acquired sufficient rights to use and to authorise others; and that the submission does not infringe upon any copyright or upon any other third party rights of which the participant is aware, and that the submission is free of malware.
  • General EligibilityThe organisers will have the right at their sole discretion to determine whether an entrant is eligible for the Trailer Making Competition.
  • The organisers may disqualify entries:
    • from those under the age of 18 who are in violation of third-party rights, law, or regulation.
    • Are from participants residing outside India.
    • Use inappropriate or explicit language or images, or
    • Display content that the organisers or its sponsors otherwise find objectionable or inconsistent with the Trailer Making Competition or its sponsors’ brand image or goodwill.
  • The organisers will accept only those entries that are:
    • Completed and submitted as described above that conform to any technical requirements specified as part of the entry process.
    • Entries that do not comply with the provisions of these rules will be deemed ineligible and will not be considered.